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MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES. 



often moulding or decaying before the glazing or hardening 

 of the kernel takes place. If the crop is sufficiently advanced 

 as not to be injured by freezing, it will ripen and dry off 

 best upon the stalks in the open ground ; but if in the milk, 

 or still soft and tender at the approach of freezing weather, 

 it should be gathered and suspended, after being husked, in 

 a dry and airy room or building, taking care to keep the ears 

 entirely separate from each other. 



Darling's Stalk about five feet in height, and compar- 



Early. 

 DARMNC.'S EAR- atively slender ; the ears are from six to eight 



LY SWEET. 



inches in length, an inch and a half in diame- 

 ter, and, when the variety is unmixed, uniformly eight- 

 rowed ; the kernels are roundish, flattened, pure white 

 when suitable for boiling, much shrivelled or 

 wrinkled, and of a dull, semi-transparent yel- 

 low, when ripe ; the cob is white. 



The variety is early, very tender and sugary, 

 yields well, produces little fodder, ears near the 

 ground, and is one of the best sorts for plant- 

 ing for early use, as it seldom, if ever, fails to 

 perfect its crop. In the Middle States, and in 

 the milder sections of New England, it may be 

 planted for boiling until near the beginning of 

 July. 



The hills are made three feet apart in one 

 direction by two feet and a half in the opposite ; 

 or the seeds may be planted in drills three feet 

 apart, dropping them in groups of three to- 

 gether every eighteen inches. 



Darline's Early 

 Corn. 



Early Dwarf Plant three or four feet high, and very slen- 



Sugar. 

 EXTUA EARLT der i the ears, of which from one to three are 



DWARF. 



produced on a stalk, are put forth near the 



